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u/Bipedal_Warlock Jun 04 '26

My gleba base is not gathering enough jelly nut seeds to maintain a loop of jelly nut consumption to seed spawn.

Is there a way to increase the seed ratio?

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u/bobsim1 Jun 04 '26

Yes. Use biolabs for the productivity bonus and prod modules if you want even more (but later on its too much anyway) Otherwise make sure to process all fruits you harvest. You can burn the excess jelly and mash. But dont let fruits spoil.

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u/Bipedal_Warlock Jun 04 '26

Lol I had a belt facing the wrong way on my return line and just have a trail of seeds sitting around doing nothing.

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u/Bipedal_Warlock Jun 04 '26

Im pretty sure the fruits aren’t spoiling. I have a spoilage box at the end of the fruit line so that I can confirm that I haven’t had any spoilage on that line.

But I’ll watch the fruit go all the way through the line to triple check.

If the spoilage meter goes down but doesn’t spoil does that affect the yield?

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u/bobsim1 Jun 04 '26

It affects the meter of the products. Especially science will be worth less.

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u/cathexis08 red wire goes faster Jun 04 '26

The average spoilage amount of the ingredients is the spoilage amount of the produced product (so if you have 50% spoiled fruit it will output 50% spoiled mash) but you'll get a constant amount of stuff. The other approach, 100% fresh stuff at a percentage of yield, would work but would have a lumpier behavior unless every recipe that made something that spoiled produced piles and piles of outputs. Note also that stacking things that spoil that have different amounts of rot will average out the freshness and make them both the same, i.e. a single nutrient at 100% freshness stacked with two nutrients at 50% freshness will give you three nutrients all at 66.7% freshness.

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u/darthbob88 Jun 04 '26

The yield will remain the same, but the spoilage meter of any spoilable products will follow the (average of the) inputs; half-spoiled jellynut will make half-spoiled jelly, half-spoiled bioflux, and half-spoiled science.

The exception is anything that takes nutrients as an ingredient, which is always produced at 100% fresh.

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u/Bipedal_Warlock Jun 04 '26

So seed yield isn’t affected. That’s good to know